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"Interviews on the Mountain" Exclusive Video: David Remnick

In a freewheeling and funny discussion with OA founder Marc Smirnoff, David Remnick dishes about life as an editor of the most prestigious and important magazine in America; his favorite New Yorker writer of all time; his early days as an inept crime reporter; and his hilarious (and humiliating) first appearance as a writer in The New Yorker.

Toxic Trash: The Burn Pits of Iraq and Afghanistan

As it turns out, the eventual killer of Billy McKenna was lurking in the photographs he snapped in Iraq. Billy wrote captions beneath some of his photographs; typical day on patrol reads one. The photo is partially obscured by the blurred image of a soldier’s upraised hand. Brown desert unfurls away from a vehicle toward an empty horizon, and a wavering sky scorched white hovers above. Off to one side: Balad Air Base and the spreading umbrella of rising dank smoke from a burn pit.

Magical Madness

Frank Gehry's Gulf Coast tribute to George Ohr is already stirring things up.

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